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Wines of Georgia

Swirl Wine Group - red grapes Georgia

If you haven't tried them, you really must.

Tam writes 'Cat sit tellie', instructs Sarah Abbott MW from a slightly blurry Zoom window on the laptop screen. 'Think about a cat sitting on a tellie.' No, this is not a funtervention, or some kind of screen-related hypnosis experiment. Her agency, Swirl Wine Group, runs Georgian Wine UK and in this masterclass exploring native Georgian grape varieties, she's teaching us how to pronounce the name of Georgia's main white grape variety, Rkatsiteli. The Georgian language, with its uniquely beautiful scripts, looks complex and unpronounceable even in transliteration, but...